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 THE EXPEDITION AGAINST MA'BAE, 143 but this world-conquering king, Ala-ad-din, determined to carry his army to that distant country and to spread the light of the Mohammedan religion there. Malik Naib Barbak was accordingly appointed to THE SO-CALLED GATES OF SOMNATH. command the army for this expedition, and a royal canopy was sent with him. The Malik represented that on the coast of Ma* bar there were five hundred ele- phants, larger than those which had been presented to the Sultan from Arangal, and that when he was en- gaged in the conquest of that place he had thought of